Thoughtful Thursday

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.
-Marvin J. Ashton

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
-William George Jordan

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
-Samuel Johnson

If you are not doing good with what little you have, depend upon it the more money you get the more selfish you would become...If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it.
-James Allen

My strength is the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
-Tennyson

Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
-Bulwer

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
-Woodrow Wilson

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
-Sophocles

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
-John Rockefeller